Amelia Bassano Lanier
Being neither Jewish nor a Shakesperian scholar, I find myself poorly qualified to evaluate the author's claims (which, apparently, originally appeared here:
http://spydersden.wordpress.com/2010/11/08/did-shakespeare-write-shakespeare/P )
Perhaps more knowledgeable members of FR could comment.
Ping
< channeling Ramius >
i give this thread a one in three chance of erupting into a flame war .. lol
well I wrote a paper in college that Shakespeare was actually written by Lord Bacon.............it is fairly well settled that Shakespeare did not write the plays...........
Yes, but GLOBAL WARMING.
John Dowland.
I’d give the distinction to John Dowland, who was one of the greatest musicians of his time. He moved in the same circles as Shakespeare; shared a patron with Shakespeare; had lived for years in Helsingore as musician to the Danish king; moved all through Europe, particularly Italy and would have been partial to making a quick buck putting out plays. Besides, many of his famous lute songs fit hand-in-glove with the situations in the plays.
In P. G. Wodehouse's story The Reverent Wooing of Archibald, the dedicated "sock collector" Archibald Mulliner is told that Bacon wrote plays for Shakespeare. He remarks that it was "dashed decent of him", but suggests he may have only done it because he owed Shakespeare money. Archibald then listens to an elderly Baconian expounding an incomprehensible cipher theory. The narrator remarks that the speech was "unusually lucid and simple for a Baconian". Archibald nevertheless wishes he could escape by picking up a nearby battle-axe hanging on the wall and "dot this doddering old ruin one just above the imitation necklace".
I blame Bush.
Shakespears plays, taken together, amount to half again as much coherent text as the Bible, both testament. I have a hard time believing that any one person could produce all of that.
I am NOT William Shakespeare! Stop asking!
Sorry, I’m OK now.
Two words: Occam’s Razor.
You know, over the years, I've read that Shakespeare's stuff was written by about a dozen different people and not him. It could be true because I've seen, and had, bosses that contributed nothing but took full credit for my work, so if that is what old Billy did, then I guess he was ahead of his time.
Ok, I admit it. I wrote them all. Where’s my royalties?
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Which explains the “pound of flesh”.
She may well have been Shakespeares mistress at one time ( See Sonnet 128) but the overwhelming contemporaneous evidence is that the man from Stratford wrote the plays.
Be damned. I thought Neil Kinnock wrote ‘em.
Not a wise Latina?
Wasn’t Shakespeare a Catholic, ping?